Taking Sides : Tormato vs. Love Beach

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The year is 1978, you're in a prog band feeling the heat from punk and what is shaping up to be new wave. So you decide to release what is indisputably the worst record in your catalog up to that point (even the die-hard proggers weep). WTF? (nice covers too)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

yes and elp are so bad! but the fiery horses rule! and drama is a bad album! so is 90212273! go fishcale! name a rocj album!

― blister metzger, Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

combat rock

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 15 April 2006 06:50 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

release release! tormato is totally underrated. funny how trevor horn joined YES the next year. but punk "won"! think / do it for yourself ~ all prog is bad :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOo8eJBmXQE

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 May 2016 20:49 (nine years ago)

waiting for kornrulez6969 to weigh in on this

― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2016 20:59 (nine years ago)

my take: I think both records are underrated. Tormato is probably the better of the two but I do find myself entertained by Love Beach, as limp and tweety as so much of the music is. And I don't care what anyone says, "Taste of my Love" contains some incredible lines for a freakin' prog band. "Around the gates of pleasure to the maze of pain"...ouch!!!

― frogbs, Friday, 20 May 2016 21:00 (nine years ago)

not gonna knock love beach but there's nothing on there that blows my mind like "on the silent wings of freedom" or "onward"

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 20 May 2016 21:28 (nine years ago)

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